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Dollo's law

noun
Dol·lo's law | \ˈdä(ˌ)lōz-\

Definition of Dollo's law 

: a generalization in biology: characters lost in the course of evolution are never regained in the original form

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History and Etymology for Dollo's law

after Louis Dollo †1931 Belgian paleontologist

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